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“Kill the Ámpaya!”: On Latin American Baseball Fiction
Dick Cluster discusses Latin American baseball fiction, which he has translated and anthologized in “Kill the Ámpaya!”
All Essays
Other People’s Children: “Younger,” “Cucumber,” and an Open Love Letter to Nico Tortorella
Jonathan Alexander on the frisson and fantasy of love and sex across the generational divide in the TV shows “Younger” and “Cucumber.”
Motel Living and Slowly Dying
Motels are a national neighborhood and a para-culture that is, for some people, the only place they live.
Knight
Knight Landesman’s fall from art world grace has shaken me to the core: I am a slightly different person today than I was on October 24, 2017.
A Threshold Is an Opening
Frances McDonald and Whitney Trettien on their new digital journal, "thresholds."
The Trouble with Big Science
Jim Kozubek on the potential problems of profiteering in biotech.
All Snowflakes Must Melt: “Blade Runner 2049”
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun considers the future of "Blade Runner 2049."
Hacking It: “Blade Runner 2049”
Did the 2014 Sony hack influence "Blade Runner 2049"? Jordan Brower on Denis Villeneuve's latest.
De Constantia, or Malcolm in the Middle
Birger Vanwesenbeeck remembers AC/DC's Malcolm Young.
Does Liberalism Still Have a Future?
Jeffrey C. Isaac on Mark Lilla, Edward Luce, and where American liberalism goes from here.
Post-Traumatic Whiteness: How Vietnam Veterans Became the Basis for a New White Identity Politics
Joseph Darda looks at how war trauma became the basis for a white identity politics that adapted the politics of multiculturalism for its revanchist ends.
The Other Side: Radical Women
Annie Buckley views “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985,” an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (September 15–December 31, 2017).
A Miserable Miracle: Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama”
Sam George Jackson reviews Lucrecia Martel's "Zama" and the long-overlooked work of Antonio Di Benedetto.
“Star Trek: Discovery” and the Dream of Future Fuels
Karen Pinkus contemplates “Star Trek: Discovery” and the future of fuel.
“The Terranauts” by T. C. Boyle
In the Arizona desert, eight scientists are selected for a grand experiment: living under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. With wit and humor, this novel explores the fallibility of human behavior and the looming question of our future. Check out our Winter 2017 pick for the LARB Book Club: “The Terranauts” by T. C. Boyle.
Wait for It: On Michael Robbins and Refrains
Michael Devine reflects on poetry, pop culture, and the art of the refrain.
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